Hi All!
Painting my 1/32 Revell F-15E, spent forever getting it smooth and happy and ready for painting. FYI, didn’t find the build hard at all; the front fuselage to body joint is easily conquered by careful fitting and glueing it one side at a time. But I digress, this post is about PAINT.
So I primed it in Walmart rattle-can primer (which is nice stuff, BTW), it looked like a good base color for an F-15A or C when sprayed on.
But this is an ‘E’, it is supposed to be Gunship Gray! So I be-bop off to the LHS, pick up a couple of cans of Tamiya TS-48 Gunship Gray lacquer. As an airbrushing newbie, the model is just too daunting in size to me for airbrushing, and I like the way the Tamiya spray paints lay down flat and smooth, anyway. So I spray away…
…AND WOW!!!.. The plane looks really, really dark now!!
Did I mention that it looks REALLY REALLY DARK???
This seems like it’d be a good color if I were painting a B-2, or the “Bat Jet”, but I’m wondering if this is going to look like poop when I’m done? Anyone else gone the 1/32 or 1/48 F-15E/Tamiya TS-48 route? And how happy were you with the results?
Thanks!
Mark